Words about Lincoln fill a small but ever-growing library.

With all due respect to re-enactors, I consider the Civil War too tragic a subject to make a game of.

The challenge of a president himself struggling to find the conjunction between the right words and honest expression, a use of language that respects intellect, truth, and sincerity, has largely been abandoned.

Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.

I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want to have my hand in the creative process. That's part of why I got into music in the first place.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.